If Cigarettes Are Still Available In 50 Years Time What Might A Packet...

[sandyRoe]

Of 20 cost?
At the moment they cost over £11.

[Hopkirk]

Eleven quid?!? Are you serious?

I wish I smoked, because I could give up and save an absolute fortune.

[Jackdaw33]

£11? You're lucky. In England a pack of decent smokes is well over £12.

[barry1010]

Ha! That's what we did, Hopkirk. We both stopped nearly 30 years ago and every time we realise what they cost now we do a little dance. Within 2 years of stopping we had saved enough for a new kitchen and a holiday.

[Hopkirk]

No wonder I see so many packs with foreign words on them.

[royfromaus]

6991.51 Ruble.

[theshedman]

I stopped around 40 years ago and don't miss it or the cost at all although when I was in the Royal Navy we used to get the old Blue Liners as they were called at around 30p for 300.

[mushroom25]

what will people do in films after sex if they can't smoke?

[Peter Pedant]

Hi Sandy
question from a sane ABer so one's mind can er range

well ciggies were given out free to troops in the trenches 1914. and when Colmore stopped slave trading, Wills made a fortune on cigs - and endowed the University
6d for 10 or is that too much
but then cancer came
and - - - they started taxing not for revenue - - hur hur hur
but to limit consumption
BUT - in the 1970s the tax take from cigs - was enough to finance the NHS ( £100 bn equiv - altho in 1970 £ it might have been 100 m )
and we all knew that if they stopped smoking,
the alternative - - wd not be taxed as much.

every fule kno that inflation 1970-2000 was 10x - 1000%, explaining why in 1970 you cd live on £5 for a week and now it is fish and chips for one once.
but it has been around 2% a year from 2000

so the question is: what will infflation do, over the next 50 y ?

I have no idea of the answer to that one

[how nice to be able to write a post without the expectation of 1000 fooz what all dat about den]

[Peter Pedant]

I had a dolee neighbour who smoked (60)
and that was £30 a day or £200 a week which was a huge hole in
finances

[Buenchico]

When I first worked in a pub in 1971 (which, conveniently, is 50 years ago), 20 Embassy No 1 cost 26p.

20 Embassy No 1 Signature Gold now cost £9.25 in Tesco. So that's about 35 times the 1971 price for a similar product. Applying the same multiplier to the current price suggests a possible price in 50 years time of £329.

[Theland]

I think fags will be history and the drug of choice will be something supplied by the government to make us feel all, ''Yeah man, cool, beeyooteefooool, omg, am gonna cry, or laugh or wee or, what was I saying?''

''No you, you said ......... Its all clear now ........ ''

''Its growing bigger, bigger, bigger ..... Its poppin' purples an' I can't get serious your turn your turn ......''

(Sounds of songs from waaaaaaaaay past float on by .....)

[Gizmonster]

If we assume an annual average increase of 5%:
1.05^50 x £11.00 = £126.14

An annual average increase of 10%:
1.1^50 x £11.00 = £1291.30

That's a HUGE difference by only doubling the annual increase .... so take your pick :)

[Peter Pedant]

// Applying the same multiplier to the current price suggests a possible price in 50 years time of £329.//

clearly not a stock picker on the LSE as we all know previous performance is no guaranatee of future profts ....

at least two of my family - no three - have come badly unstuck on failing to heed that. Actually my brother lost a lot of moolah on Lonrho as he didnt recognise Timy Rowland as an obvious con man - in fact he was conned by him

[Peter Pedant]

hi Gizzeh
no we cant assume that - 1815 - 1914 inflation overall was zero innit?

[yeah you are right I keep the rates of inflation over the last 200 y in my head]

[Bazile]

I seem to recall reading somewhere or listening to some programme , that cigarette manufacturers deliberately used to add an additional substance in the tobacco that was severely addictive .

Am I mistaken ?

[david small]

My BIL and his wife and daughter smoke 20 each a day.
£30 a day, 7 days a week =£210 a week. £10,920 a year.
Madness. They all have a hacking cough to boot.

[Mamyalynne]

Nicotine is the addictive component of tobacco.

[Arksided]

I do respect the johnny do-gooders that have managed to quit but wow some don't half like to harp on about it... knowing damn well they want a drag of your cig.

[Mamyalynne]

Something I swore I'd never do Arky, even though all I have done is change from analogue to E Cigs therefore am still an addict.

[Bazile]

//Nicotine is the addictive component of tobacco//.

I know that -thats not what I asked